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...never said this. You wrote that "Sinhalese Buddhist mobs have burned or vandalized more than 100 Christian churches." This is the work of a small extremist group whose members are now in custody. They attacked mostly evangelist prayer houses, not churches. Eric Fernando Director General Policy Research and Information Unit, President's Office Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...specialists in Washington--one in the radical fundamentalists unit, one in a unit dedicated to bin Laden--analyze the memo and consult two other specialists about the legal implications. On Aug. 7 they decide to close the case and come back to it when they have time...
...Ideally, Schily would have liked to call a crisis meeting of top officials from the BfV, the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). But only the BND is located in Berlin. The BKA is headquartered 571 km away in Wiesbaden, while the BKA's counterterrorism unit is located in bucolic Meckenheim, near Bonn, some 600 km from Berlin. The BfV, which gathers domestic intelligence and keeps tabs on suspected jihadists, is in Cologne. As a result, Schily held his crisis meeting by phone. "Just imagine if we have to react rapidly," he says. "That worked well...
...progress was thought to consist in multiplying the number of "courses" provided and the number of instructors. As all students were born equal, so were all subjects. It was a system of laissez faire. Today progress consists in "thinking not of the course but of the student as the unit." Education is measured by the "character energy and ambition" which he develops; and, correspondingly, the ability of a teacher is judged not merely by his contributions to science, but by the inspirational and energizing influence of his teaching. Less broadly elective, education has become "a selective process." No longer...
...growing optimism that the island can halt centuries of environmental despoliation and maybe even reverse some of the damage. "With a lot of luck and effort and help, Madagascar can pull back from the brink," says Frank Hawkins, technical director of the Madagascar Center for Biodiversity Conservation, a unit of the U.S. environmental NGO Conservation International. He and his wife, Joanna Durbin, who heads the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island, are heartened by the 2002 election of reform-minded President Marc Ravalomanana, who has pledged to expand his country's network of protected conservation areas from 1.7 million...